From: Steve C. (stevec50_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 10:32:47 EDT
It's possible that the port might just be bad but it
may be that something else is using that port and
blocks printing. For instance, if you have recently
configured the IR port for wireless communication it
can use the printer port as well as the serial port.
I ran into that once with IR. The solution is to go
into control panel and disable the lpt port for IR
communications. If you remove it, windows will just
find and install it again next time when you reboot.
--- STeve Andre' <andres_at_msu.edu> wrote:
> The first thing I'd do is hook the printer up to
> another computer, to see
> if the printer is OK. The second thing would be to
> hook up another
> printer to the suspect computer. Doing those two
> things will give
> you a pretty good clue what's wrong.
>
> If both work, then you have one of the just wondrous
> spontaneous
> Windows mess ups, and I'm not sure what is the best
> course for
> that. Off hand, I'd delete every printer in the
> system--every one--
> and then reboot, then add that printer again.
>
> If that doesn't work, I'd ask here again and maybe
> someone will
> have an answer. ;-)
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> At 06:57 PM 9/1/00 -0700, Chuck Blaisdell wrote:
> >I don't have a clue as to whether this a hardware
> or Win98Se
> >problem or ???
> >Computer/OS: Thinkpad600E, 128mb ram, Win98SE
> >All of a sudden, when I try to print to my HP
> LaserJet 1100, I get the
> >following error message: "There was an error
> writing to LPT 1: (for
> >the
> >Printer HP Laser Jet 1100): There was a problem
> printing to the
> >port. Check
> >to make sure your printer is configured to use a
> valid port."
> >As to the obvious question, yes, it is configured
> for LPT 1. The error
> >occurs whether or not the printer/printer cable (or
> ANY printer/cable)
> >are
> >attached when attempted to print to that printer. I
> have re-installed
> >the
> >HP driver software, re-initialized the bios, and
> run the bios
> >diagnostic
> >check on the port (which says the port is ok).
> >Any ideas? Thanks much!
>
=====
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